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A watershed week in nuclear news

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It’s a watershed moment – on 2 counts:

1. Ukraine. The determination of the USA-led Western countries to bring Ukraine into NATO is a red flag to Russia, and current events, indicate that the West, and its charismatic super-star Zelensky, will not countenance any negotiated end to the war.

2. The IAEA’s Rafael Grossi has made it clear that the Fukushima nuclear wastewater MUST be emptied into the Pacific, to ensure that this practice is accepted, for the continued growth of the nuclear industry world-wide.

Christina notes. IAEA hypocrisy, and the little Fukushima nuclear radiation mill.       And the prize for HYPOCRISY goes to Rafael Grossi,Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. No real research into the effects of releasing nuclear waste-water into rivers and seas. Oh goody! That means it’s OK, (doesn’t it?)

TOP STORIES

Ralph Nader: Reverse the Accelerating Warfare State Before It’s Too Late! Daniel Kovalik: Why Russia’s intervention in Ukraine is legal under international law. Chris Hedges: They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.

Better, safer, alternatives for managing Fukushima’s radioactively polluted wastewater.         Cover up? Did atom bosses collude to ‘manage message’ of Japanese plan to poison Pacific? Will this whistleblower be heard by anyone? Fukushima: Anxiety and anger over Japan’s nuclear waste water plan.

An Attack on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Could Still be Catastrophic (- nuclear promoters minimise the risk). Red alert at Zaporizhzhia? US cluster bombs deal is clear signal that war is not going well for Ukraine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpVon7R2XKo

CLIMATE. Wishful thinking about nuclear energy won’t get us to net zero. 

CIVIL LIBERTIES. Ben & Jerry’s, CodePink Co-Founders Arrested in DC Demanding Freedom for Julian Assange.

ECONOMICS.

ENERGY. Germany’s power mix boasts more renewables, lower spot market prices – despite nuclear exit. Fukushima: China calls for suspension of Japanese plan to release radioactive water into sea. Russian K-278 sub sank 30 years ago but continues to leak radiation.         Historic Hanford contamination is worse than expected.

FILM. The Fukushima Disaster: The hidden side of the story, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBqk0OtlE8k

HEALTH. Workers, residents at US site that made Nagasaki A-bomb’s plutonium still suffering. U.S. senators seek expanded compensation for people exposed to nuclear fallout.

INDIGENOUS ISSUES. Local colleges train students to work in a plutonium pit factory, but at what cost?      First Nations won’t back nuclear plant expansion until waste questions are answered. Barngarla people continue their fight against the proposed Kimba nuclear waste dump.

LEGAL  High nuclear crimes don’t pay.

MEDIA. Fukushima, the Hidden Side of the Story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBqk0OtlE8k . Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats. Today in war propaganda.

  NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. World’s Largest Fusion Project Is in Big Trouble, New Documents Reveal.         Even the science engineering big-wigs don’t seem too enthusiastic about nuclear fusion.         Sweden goes for small nuclear reactors, dumps renewable energy plans.     Canada planning World’s Biggest Nuclear Power Plant .    UK Labour seeks pact to keep AI out of nuclear arms deployment.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR. Huge protest against Rafael Grossi at Gimpo airport, Seoul, South Korea.       Jeju islanders protest Japan’s radioactive water discharge. UN report on Japan’s Fukushima water plans fails to placate opponents. Come and join us: Nuclear Free Local Authorities individual membership launched on Independence Day. Backlash builds as Japan prepares to release wastewater from Fukushima nuclear plant. Nagasaki to take shot at G-7 over its nuclear deterrence stance.

POLITICS. Italy’s Nuclear Energy Debate: Past, Present, and Future. US govt provides yet another round of money grants to companies, including Westinghouse, to promote nuclear power development. RFK Jr torches Biden for handing “horrific” cluster munitions to Ukraine.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. ” The future of nuclear as an alternative energy source relies on the success of the Fukushima release” – Rafael Grossi, (“problem is war, not nuclear energy”- Grossi). International community cannot tolerate Japan’s nuclear-contaminated water dumping.. Ukraine, Russia accuse each other of planning to attack Europe’s biggest nuclear plant. Russia and Ukraine step up rhetoric around Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Ukraine in talks with Bulgaria to buy Russian nuclear reactors with EU funds. N Korea slams US move to deploy nuclear submarines to peninsula.

SAFETY. Russia calls on NATO to discuss Ukraine nuclear plant. IAEA: Europe’s largest nuclear power plant regains back-up electricity feed. Especially in USA, nuclear reactors are getting very old – past their use-by dates. INCIDENTS: One of the world’s worst nuclear disasters is likely something you’ve never heard of.

SECRETS and LIES. Nuclear Contaminated Water Dumping: IAEA Concludes ‘Absolute Safety of Nuclear Contaminated Water’ – with Japanese Government Money?.   

  Despite Zelensky’s claims, there’s no evidence that Russia has rigged Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya plant with explosives, nuclear watchdog says.

SPINBUSTER. Despite Zelensky’s claims, there’s no evidence that Russia has rigged Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya plant with explosives, nuclear watchdog says. John Bolton Accidentally Explains Why US Policy On Russia And China Is Wrong.

WASTES. IAEA chief Rafael Grossi says he’s satisfied with Japan’s plans to release Fukushima wastewater. Japanese regulator greenlights discharge of nuclear waste from Fukushima plant.         What to know about Japan’s plan to release treated radioactive water from Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. Japan Set to Pour Fukushima Water Into Pacific, Irking China. Japan’s nuclear regulator finishes inspection of Fukushima radioactive wastewater release system. Japan claims that China and South Korea both pour radioactive waste-water , worse than Japan’s, into the oceans. 

 Hanford nuclear waste site has a clean-up bill of 560 billion USD in Washington DC . Missouri S&T will ask St. Louis-area residents their opinions about nuclear waste.

WAR and CONFLICT.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.

July 10, 2023 - Posted by | Christina's notes

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  1. RFK Jr. Rips Biden On Sending Cluster Bombs To Ukraine
    Tampa bay free Press
    Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) blasted the Biden administration Friday after announcing that the Department of Defense would transfer cluster munitions to Ukraine.

    The Biden administration announced plans to primarily send M864 155-millimeter artillery shells, known as Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions (DPICM), which dispense smaller explosive weapons over an area to attack personnel and vehicles, reversing a previous decision to withhold the weapons.

    “Cluster bombs are munitions so horrific for civilians that more than a hundred nations have signed an international treaty banning them,” Kennedy, who is challenging President Joe Biden for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in the 2024 election, posted on Twitter. “Now the Biden administration is preparing to send them to Ukraine.”

    In the news: NOAA Throws Cold Water On Media Hysteria ‘Three Hottest Days On Record’

    “These munitions scatter bomblets across the landscape,” Kennedy said in a follow-on post. “Many fail to explode — until children pick them up later. They have caused thousands of injuries and deaths to civilians.”

    Cluster munitions are weapons that release or eject smaller submunitions over a wide area. They are designed to kill personnel and destroy vehicles, but they pose a significant risk to civilians as well.

    Cluster munitions work by releasing a large number of submunitions, or bomblets, from a single container. The bomblets are typically dispersed over an area of several football fields, and they can be armed with a variety of different warheads, including anti-personnel, anti-tank, and incendiary.

    When a cluster munition is released, the bomblets are dispersed by either a parachute or a spinning disc. The bomblets are designed to explode on impact, but a significant number of them often fail to detonate. These unexploded bomblets can pose a deadly hazard to civilians long after the conflict has ended.

    Comment by Eschaton | July 10, 2023 | Reply

  2. THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS CENSORING RFK JRS CAMPAIGN AND ATTEMPTING TO SMEARI IT INTO IRRELEVANCY

    It’s time to come home and restore this country.

    From Rfk jr campaign site

    In the long term, a nation’s strength does not come from its armies. America spends as much on weaponry as the next nine nations combined, yet the country has grown weaker, not stronger, over the last 30 years. Even as its military technology has reigned supreme, America has been hollowing out from the inside. We cannot be a strong or secure nation when our infrastructure, industry, society, and economy are infirm.

    A high priority of a Kennedy administration will be to make America strong again. When a body is sick, it withdraws its energy from the extremities in order to nourish the vital organs. It is time to end the imperial project and attend to all that has been neglected: the crumbling cities, the antiquated railways, the failing water systems, the decaying infrastructure, the ailing economy. Annual defense-related spending is close to one trillion dollars. We maintain 800 military bases around the world. The peace dividend that was supposed to come after the Berlin Wall fell was never redeemed. Now we have another chance.

    As President, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will start the process of unwinding empire. We will bring the troops home. We will stop racking up unpayable debt to fight one war after another. The military will return to its proper role of defending our country. We will end the proxy wars, bombing campaigns, covert operations, coups, paramilitaries, and everything else that has become so normal most people don’t know it’s happening. But it is happening, a constant drain on our strength. It’s time to come home and restore this country.

    RFK Jr hauls in over $6M since launching Democratic primary challenge against Biden and 3 million in 3 days
    By: az central
    July 06, 2023 at 10:25 AM EDT

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hauls in over $6 million in fundraising since launching 2024 Democratic primary challenge against President Biden.
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. brought in more than $6 million in fundraising since launching his Democratic presidential primary challenge against President Biden on April 19, his campaign announced on Thursday.

    Kennedy’s campaign touted that the environmental lawyer hauled in “an average of $1 million a day” for the final three days of the second quarter of 2023 fundraising, which ended on June 30.

    The campaign reported having $3 million in cash on-hand in their coffers at the end of the second quarter.

    ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. TAKES AIM AT MAINSTREAM MEDIA

    Former Ohio Rep. Dennis Kuncinich, Kennedy’s campaign manager, argued that the fundraising is a sign of “the public’s support for a courageous, authentic truth-teller. We are hearing again and again that Mr. Kennedy is catching on because the public is fed up with the media smears. People are answering the attacks by opening up their wallets.”

    WILLIAMSON TARGETS DNC OVER ‘OUTRAGEOUS’ BACKING OF BIDEN
    Rfk jr says he will not support Biden. Rfk jr says he will not support the Ukraine war or any other wars of us aggression.

    “RFK, Jr. has shown respect for the intelligence of the American people. The more people hear his message, the more he connects,” added Kucinich, who unsuccessfully ran in 2004 and 2008 for the Democratic presidential nomination.

    Fundraising, along with polling, is a key metric to gauge a candidate’s popularity and a campaign’s strength. The money raised can be used for travel, ads, and to build voter outreach efforts.

    Kennedy said in an interview last month Rfk jr states that “the mainstream media has dismissed my candidacy as an irrelevancy.”

    Comment by Erica Brayco | July 10, 2023 | Reply

    • Still need to look at the fine print of Rfk jr’s policies.

      Comment by Christina Macpherson | July 10, 2023 | Reply

      • His vaccine stuff maybe wierd but he said he would not support biden at any time. Hes being railroaded, smeared, blocked and censored in the usa. Trump is a fascist biden is the worst backslider and and warmonger pssible. All the crap we see in this capitalist totalitarian craphole is vetted by the cia and corporate shadow govt comon christina get real. Williamson gets no coverage

        Comment by Erica brayco | July 10, 2023

      • to Erica brayco
        I’m not sure that his plans are all that genuinely democratic. But he seems better than any others contending. I too, have a few reservations about the vaccine stuff, (even though I am fully vaccinated) – such a profitable business for the competing companies. To my utter shame. I ponder that the abominable Trump might be better than Biden, who is completely in the grip of the war-mongering industries. But who can ever become president of USA without having the backing of those industries?

        Comment by Christina Macpherson | July 10, 2023

  3. There is a grave discrepancy between the naratives of the predatory rulers, and the reality of the economy. People can afford less and less.
    The usa is mostly sweltering. The climate deniers are ignoring it. It was at its worse in 2020 and 2021 It skipped a year in 2022. Next year it will be irreconcilable.
    The proxy war narative disparity is very dangerous. The difference between what the so called establishment says, and what is being said in other sources, like moon of alabama or dissident voice. That war is like a black hole, that is threatening to take a lot down, fairly quickly,, especially if nukes are used. Darned it ishard to share on these things. Many are censored.

    Comment by Belden | July 11, 2023 | Reply

  4. The united states government does not count people, who have not ctively sought employment in the last 9 months unemployed. Many US government statistics are flawed.
    Trump wanted to cut all people off social seurity disability, in the USA. That is 7,500,000 people. I am on regular social security . I have to wait five days into the month, to get check now, when major bills are due, at the begining of the month because Trump did that in spite to us.
    If trump cut half of those 7.5 million people off social security disability, and cut the benefits a lot of people like me, we would all be homeless .
    Half of 7.5 million is 3,525,000 people.
    Thats 3,525,000 million homelesS Trump cut off social security, in addition to 2 million already homeless or, 5,325,000 homeless, total. Trump says again and again, he will put all homeless people in concentration camps in the usa. Biden is ruining the economy and pushing the country ever closer to ww3. Why should people, in a supposedly civilized country, have only these two old monsters as a choice, for a leader? I cannot believe the cruel propaganda of the american media or the thoughtless, assertions of people from outside the usa, that one of these things, would be better than the other.

    Comment by Tammy Hunt | July 12, 2023 | Reply


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